Andrew Roberts Quotes
I lived like a bear, in a little room, with books for my only friends . . . These were the joys and debaucheries of my youth.
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I'm very content.
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An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
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Me as president would not be like anybody else as president. Everyone does the job differently.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.
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I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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Don't say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes didn't see - or refused to see - what the people around him were really up to. But everything I did, I did for Ronnie. I did for love.
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Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
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I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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I had never seen 'Vogue.' I didn't read fashion magazines, I read 'Time' and 'Newsweek.'
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I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.
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The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
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Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic!
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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
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Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.
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Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.
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The number one priority in life is to take care of yourself and make sure you're happy.
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When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.
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I lived like a bear, in a little room, with books for my only friends . . . These were the joys and debaucheries of my youth.
